Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.

There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.